‘Hitpad – See What’s Up’ – Keep Up with Headlines On Your iPad
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Applications like Pulse and Flipboard have been quite popular with iPad fans. Both applications have brought visually appealing designs, and ways to keep up with news, your friends and your cyberspace social circles.
A new application on the App Store, Hitpad, brings you snippets or quick snapshots of all the latest news and important topics that are hot trends on the current day, so that you become aware in no time and with very little effort.
Hitpad is definitely a quick way to find out what’s going on in the news directly on your iPad. The application pulls in multiple sources and hot trends, and presents the stories to you in a very organized way with a visually appealing design.
The developer, Instant Discover, designed the application in such a way that it detects what people across the web are interested in by checking various media sites, Twitter, videos and much more. The goal is that you get access to hot news across many topics and categories without the need to hit multiple sites and social network streams.
For example, if you tap on a listed subject like “Tornadoes”, the application will display a screen full of headlines about storms and tornadoes, videos and tweets. All you have to do is simply click on the headers, and the application will take you to the source using its built-in browser.
The current version of the application does not allow you to personalize the topics or news feeds that should automatically load when you launch the app. The application brings hot news stories around the following categories – Top Stories, Entertainment, Business, Sports, Technology. However, you can always search for a specific topic and Hitpad will bring up the latest stories around that. In addition, the application will learn your interests, and will start displaying articles associated with your searches.
Hitpad’s user interface is quite nice. There is no requirement for you to learn how to navigate, it is very intuitive. You can share stories via Facebook, Twitter and by email. I liked that once you bring up a story, Hitpad will instantly display related stories, which certainly makes it easy for you to browse around and learn lots about a specific topic or headline.
I would like to see some custom settings added to the application. For example, there is no way for me to create a new section or category. It would be nice to be able to create your own categories.
Hitpad is a free download for your iPad. The application definitely has great potential, and it is a very good download for your tablet. I recommend you give it a try, especially since it’s a free app, and one that could become quite handy when looking for what’s going on in the world of news.
